Dirrell injury comfirmed!!!!

March 6 clash with Abraham postponed Super middleweight contender Andre Dirrell revealed tonight to radio host Marc Lichtenfeld on his weekly “Through the Ropes” radio show that he injured his back earlier this week while sparring and will see a specialist tomorrow. Dirrell said he has previously thrown out his back and expects to be out for one week to two weeks. Nothing official as far as a new date for his scheduled March 6th SUPER SIX fight against Arthur Abraham on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING, however a media conference call scheduled for Friday was cancelled. More will be resolved Friday. fight news.com im pretty sure sumone posted it up earlier but just in case if n/e body missed it

Comments (17)

Afactor4

Wait, so anyone know what someone who bought tickets to this should do now?

16y ago

Dambala

No, what a bummer. I was rooting for Andre, I hope the injury is not that bad.

16y ago

KILLA_RIGHT

Man fuk dirrell i can't stand this guy... I was so pissed and still am he was in the tourney..dude is fuken boring.. He ruined his back running i bet

16y ago

minasyan

this sucks maybe if they trained less and had fights more often this crap would not happen so annoying

16y ago

Dan

Whenever a fighter pulls out everyone always seems to be looking for some commercially-driver reason behind it all. How about that is is just a tough sport and sometimes guys get injured?

16y ago

Hitman932

Anyone here think it's just a way for Showtime to move the date back, so they don't have to compete with HBO? More than likely if it does get moved it will get moved to the same day as Kessler-Froch or Ward-Green in an attempt to really whoop HBO's ass on those dates, not to avoid them on 3/6. I think it's pretty obvious that the Showtime card on 3/6 was gonna be much better than HBO's offering.

16y ago

STILL_DETOX6232

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

16y ago

GreatRubdini

Anyone here think it's just a way for Showtime to move the date back, so they don't have to compete with HBO? i thought about that too...

16y ago

Shadows

Anyone here think it's just a way for Showtime to move the date back, so they don't have to compete with HBO?

16y ago

AddiX

This is complete BS, first off, everyone who has worked in labor knows back problems are the hardest thing to prove. Even with a doctor. Why did it take him so long to reveal his injury? And if it's so bad why is only going to take 2 weeks to recover? I wanted Andre to beat Abraham, but this to me is really obvious he want's no part of him.

16y ago

mathed

Dag man, I was getting hyped up for this one. I definitely have points on Abraham now because dirrell's mobility just went down the tubes. I hope he is ok though, back injuries are no fun.

16y ago

GreatRubdini

:rofl: That would require Bute to actually want to fight A-level opponents. At this point, Bute has done nothing to make me believe he isn't another Zsolt Erdei. maybe he's waiting till they get old and washed up..... like Calzaghe lol

16y ago

Iceta_Lives

:rofl: That would require Bute to actually want to fight A-level opponents. At this point, Bute has done nothing to make me believe he isn't another Zsolt Erdei. He'd join the tournament if HBO would let him.

16y ago

GreatRubdini

He should be disqualified from the tournament and replaced with Bute. I can only hope though. Right? I want them to replace Green with Bute....

16y ago

Iceta_Lives

He should be disqualified from the tournament and replaced with Bute. I can only hope though. Right?

16y ago

Pullcounter7451

wow that sux

16y ago

Ekscape

I went to get tickets to this yesterday and it was completely sold out... Even ticket brokers didnt have tickets... I was shocked